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FEUDING PARTIES

Edward Drinker Cope (1840–97) – palaeontologist

vs

Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–99) – palaeontologist

DATE

1860s–90s

CAUSE OF FEUD

Priority over discovery of fossils (aka the ‘bone war’)

The ‘bone war’ between Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh was the most notorious and damaging feud of its age, a Greek tragedy of hubris and nemesis, of two men locked together by obsession until one of them, goaded beyond endurance, unleashed the furies of public disgrace, bringing ruin upon both their heads. It was also a clash of personal ideologies that somehow embodied the late 19th-century battle for the soul of America, of individualism vs imperialism, libertarianism vs the establishment, anarchy vs order, a clash that would shape the settlement of the West.